Built Shechem - This means he “enlarged and fortified” it . Jeroboam’s first intention seems to have been to make Shechem his capital, and t…

Jeroboam built Shechem.—Shechem had passed through many vicissitudes of fortune. It was already a city when Abraham entered the Pr…

Jeroboam is motivated by political strategy, you see. It is very hard, I believe, to be a ruler over people and yet to be a servant of God. There s…

Then Jeroboam built Shechem in Mount Ephraim, and dwelt
there
Not that this city had …

Jeroboam distrusted the providence of God; he would contrive ways and means, and sinful ones too, for his own safety. A practical disbelief of God'…